The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-11-25

twenty-four hours, but they
wrong. The wind held at half Z oals
for the next two days, and IL was w
the fourth day OF our capture thatth
! visitors appeared and SnasnW mia rTx-
| briggs cables had parted and sne haa
| drifted away, as subsequently learn,
ed, into q smooth sea and the Gar.
tain eventually reached Honolulu n
safety, supposing, as we did not ".
| turn, that we had been drowned n
the bar. q
A chief and about twenty men came
! and we're warmly welcomed.
The latest man in our crew Ma
come ashore with mt. He was q NJ.
ond-class seaman, named Philbrick
| and was built like a porpoise. He haa
| q smooth face, red cheeks and was N
the bloom OF health. If the natives
were after something fat and tenderin
the way OF human flesh they would
certainly take Philhrick, and
saw they meant to. The choicest food
they couldprovide was being carried
to him, and it was evident that they
were stufing him for the feast.
The visitors arrived about 8 O'Clock
in the morning, and half an hour lat.
err | saw Philbrick led out. The peo.
pie at once gathered around him aud
led him of to the woods in the rear Of
the village. It was 3 o'clock in the
afternoon when the men returned, and
! was. soon aware of the fact that
Philbrick had been killed. and de.
voured. Indeed, the people congratu.
lated each other on his excellent con.
dItion, and the strangers departed for
home with the promise to come back
on the third day. 1t now seemed that
the programme was to kill and eat
one of us about every third day, and
the sailor and myself made up our
minds to eat no more food than
would barely sustain life. l was in
very poor flesh, and, fortunately for
the sailor, he was not much better OF.
while he had q running sore on his
leg.
That evening my companion and /
we're inspected by the chief and bis
two doctors. They anne to our hut
and ordered us to strip. Our lean
flesh disCusted them, and when they
saw my companions bad leg they
were furious, and as they went away
the chief, who seemed to have a per
sonal spite against me gave me a slap
in the face and exclaimed: "Ah, you
lean, long-waisted devil, I'll roast you
for my dogs if you don't fatten up!'
Three days later the guests from
Little Cannibal came over again, and
preparations were made to feast on
900 DLSlE~1rlri, follNny vnrt-~n,~. -
powerful young fellow named Kilder.
He must have realized the fate in
store for him, and the liquor which
they piled him with made him despar-
ately furious instead ofquietly drunk.
When they led him out he broke
away, backed into a space between
two nuts, and there armed with Q
lance he wrested from n of the men,
he held them at bay. There wasimme.
date and great excitement. There
were two guards at our door. One
ran away at once. After a moment
the other called to q boy of Id, and
left him in mis- place. The boy was ex-
cited and anxious and gave us no atten-
ton. AS soon as / saw this / went to
the far corner OF the hut and kicked
out enough of the poles to permit me
to crawl through. My companion
stood at the door to watch the boy,
and when l was ready ! called to him.
No one saw me as ! glided aNay, and
! made a run OF a quarter Of u mile
before | found that / was alone.
supposed the sailor was close at my
heels. but It seemed that he had taken
a different direction. No hunt wasg
made for Ss until after the ffe5ists
crossed the island, found another
fresh water creek, and then looked
about for a hiding place. went TO
the top of a very thick tree, and for
the next three days and nights ! did
not set foot on earth. "A vigorous
and persistent search was kept up by
the natives for that time, and then
they seemed to argue that ! had flung
myself into the sea.
For five days / lived on the wild or
angesand berries growing IN profusion
a found me, and then a small boat from
a wrecker came III to the creekfora cask
OF water, and ] was taken off. I'm
fortunately for me the schooner got
hold Of a wreck next day to the East Of
us, and this upset the Captains plan
to put me aboard the first vessel
bound for Honolulu, and IL was ex-
actly two months from the day OF
my capture that ! landed at the CAPT.
tai OF the Sandwich Islands.